Reading, listening to, and questioning America... from the southern Great Plains

Gee! The liberals are back!

He's right!

... The Democrats now look like the natural party of government. Bush had
already established a reputation for being unable to get anything right
in the actual business of governing; all that was supposedly left was
political prowess, and now that’s gone too. And even the news media
have, I think, begun to notice that we aren’t the “center-right” country
of fantasy, we’re a diverse nation, ethnically and otherwise, in which a
lot of liberal ideas have become perfectly mainstream. ...Paul Krugman, Economics and Politics

Republicans would disagree. But their disagreement doesn't work anymore. We were never "center-right." We have been a nation stretched too far in one direction, like a rubber band that finally breaks and snaps back, stinging your fingers. We were stung; we hurt; we've recovered.

Or so we hope. But Krugman is worried.

... You know what could really produce the kind of dispirited base that was
supposed to doom Obama in 2012? A sellout on key Democratic values as
part of a Grand Bargain. ...Paul Krugman, Economics and Politics